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Hackers Fluffi Bunni gang under arrest

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Fluffi Bunni embarrassed leading Internet security organizations by breaking into their own computers and replacing Web pages with a message that "Fluffi Bunni ownz you" and a digital photograph of a pink rabbit at a keyboard. The attacks, which began in June 2000, lasted about 18 months, then stopped mysteriously and created one of the Internet's most significant hacker whodunits in years
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The guy was playing a game of `gotcha.' He wanted to prove that even firms that specialize in security can be hacked," said Mark Rasch, chief security counsel for Solutionary Inc. and a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor. "It's like someone who robs banks to prove that banks can be robbed.

I don't think these guys dammaged anything, but FBI did not appriciate their humor ....

Aboiut that security focus website, it didn't get hacked or defaced, the website that does the advertising for security focus got hacked.

Also "labels" such as White, gray, black, are not used much, since everyone starts somewhere, usually in front a weak windoze box, then they realize they need a virus scanner, then they realize they need a firewall then they realize they need a better firewall, or they forgot to get that almight trojan scanner, then they use proxies to hide their ip, they they "Secure their pc, then they named their box" or their "machine." Then, and only then do some start dual booting with Linux installed with their weakly configured XP OS, they they realize they can do everything XP couldn't do right in the first place. Then they make the switch to Linux, and use that instead.

But these steps take time and I seen it over and over, and very few stay with linux, and even fewer who stay with linux know how to use it properly. Then some people enjoy thier remaining lives configuring scripts on their spare times.